The Filmmakers

CREW

Shenly Glenn, Producer

Shenly Glenn is an independent filmmaker and media producer, whose short film, I'm Home, was reviewed by The New York Times and Newsweek. Echo, her film investigating families coping with mental illness, won numerous awards. Glenn is interested in cultural conceptions of behavioral diseases and the social vocabularies that define the parameters of our understanding.

Eliza Hemenway, Editor

Eliza Hemenway created and directed an award winning photography program for inner city youth and completed two documentary photography series, A Code of Silence and Down the Mississippi River, both of which were exhibited widely in the greater Boston area. Hemenway has edited two documentaries: Keep it Rolling and Uncommon Knowledge: Closing the Books at UC Berkeley Extension. www.hemenwaydocs.com

Alexandra D’Arbeloff, Editorial Consultant

Alexandra D’Arbeloff most recently edited the short film, Only You Can Be Me, which won recognition at festivals. Previously, she was the editor for Poetic License, a documentary funded by itvs about Slam Poetry.

Tony Espinoza, Sound Advisor

Tony Espinoza started and owns SF Soundworks, the premiere sound recording and design studio in San Francisco. www.sfsoundworks.com.

Chip McConnell, Music consultant / Composer

Chip McConnell is a San Francisco-based musician and composer. He currently plays guitar and pedal steel guitar for the California band Escanaba. A New England native, Chip holds a degree in English from Colgate University.

Helen Park, Production Assistant

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Advisors

Bruce Miller, Advisor

Dr. Miller is Professor of Neurology at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) where he holds the A.W. & Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Chair. Dr. Miller is the clinical director of the Memory and Aging Center (MAC) at UCSF, which is funded through the State of California and the Koret Foundation. Dr. Miller is a behavioral neurologist with a special interest in brain and behavior relationships and has focused his work in the area of dementia. At UCSF, Dr. Miller directs an NIH-funded program project on frontotemporal dementia (FTD) called Frontotemporal Dementia: Genes, Images and Emotions. His work with FTD has emphasized both the behavioral and emotional deficits that characterize these patients, while simultaneously noting the visual creativity that can emerge in the setting of FTD. The recognition that dementia patients have many strengths is a guiding principle of the Memory and Aging Center.

Henry Breitrose, Advisor

Henry Breitrose established the graduate program in documentary film and television at Stanford University in 1960 where he taught before retiring in 2006. Breitrose has worked for the NBC European Production Unit, BBC, Thames Television ( London); he has been a consultant for the French National Television system, National Film Board of Canada, Asian Institute for Broadcast Development, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He was a founding member the editorial board of Quarterly Review of Film Studies and a founding general editor of Cambridge Studies in Film. He has served as a vice president of the University Film Association and currently serves as a vice president of CILECT, the International Association of Film and Television Schools and its Program of Training for Developing Countries.

Cort Worthington, Advisor

Cort Worthington earned his MA in documentary film and television from Stanford University. He owns and operates Illuminata Films in San Francisco, a documentary-based film company. He attended UCLA's graduate film program, and also co-founded Primordial, a toy company and makers of the educational building toy ZOOB. Illuminata produces 4-6 projects a year and is currently producing a feature documentary following the life of an American Indian man who was tried and exonerated for the murder of a prison guard.